Chuck Palahniuk citations

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“Et puis, quand ils sont épuisés, les hommes et les femmes vont à l'église.
Et ils se marient.
Être fatigué n'est pas la même chose qu'être riche, mais la plupart du temps c'est assez proche.”

“Tu as une classe entière de jeunes hommes et femmes forts et solides, et ils veulent donner leur vie pour quelque chose. La publicité les fait tous courir après des voitures et des vêtements dont ils n'ont pas besoin. Ils travaillent dans des métiers qu'ils haïssent, par générations entières, uniquement pour pouvoir acheter ce dont ils n'ont pas
vraiment besoin. Nous n'avons pas de grande guerre dans notre génération, ni de grande dépression, mais si, pourtant,
nous avons bien une grande guerre de l'esprit. Nous avons une grande révolution contre la culture. La grande dépression, c'est nos existences.
Nous avons une grande dépression spirituelle.”

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”

“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”

“I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”

“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”

“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.”

“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”

“With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.”

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”

“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

“This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”